House Speaker Chuck Kleckley has refused to cancel joint House and Senate committee hearings to consider a contract allowing Blue Cross to take over state-administered insurance policies.

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Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

BATON ROUGE - State Rep. John Bel Edwards, leader of House Democrats, has joined Rep. Katrina Jackson in calling for a delay in today's joint House and Senate committee hearings to consider a contract allowing Blue Cross to take over state-administered insurance policies.

Edwards, D-Amite, and Jackson, D-Monroe, oppose the takeover of managing Office of Group Benefits policies but they also contend the meeting was called in violation of House rules. Those rules require at least a seven-day official notice for meetings when the Legislature is not in session and say no meeting can be held ...